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- Thinking about faith-based organisations in development: where have we got to and what next?
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This paper takes stock of current thinking about the nature and distinctiveness of faith-based organisations (FBOs) in development. Since the 1990s, public policy-linked scholarship from the USA has sought to define and categorise FBOs. More recently, m ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:44
- The acceptability of immunisation in Somalia: What role does the community play in designing programme strategies?
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As part of the global drive to achieve Universal Child Immunisation by l990 (UCI9O), Somalia launched a national immunisation programme for women and children. While access to it improved, actual demand for immunisation remained low. This paper reports th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Culture and leadership in development initiatives in Egypt
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Until the early 1980s, despite paying lip-service to the central role of `human capital', most decision makers were obsessed by physical development and the rate of increase of Gross National Product. Like other Third World countries, Egypt followed suit. ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Funding preventative or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project
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The Assuit Burns Project (ABP) is a small Egyptian NGO working to help burns victims. The author describes the work of the Project, setting out its various capacities, and criticises funders' and donors' over-emphasis on preventative medicine at the expen ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Small enterprise opportunities in municipal solid waste management
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Urban and industrial growth in developing countries makes the provision of adequate waste management services vital. Public sector-private sector partnerships (the authors describe potential structures for these partnerships) offer one way to manage this ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:59
- Adult learning and literacy learning for livelihoods: some international perspectives
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Based on the contemporary interest in developing new adult literacy learning programmes based on ‘literacy for livelihoods’, this paper examines some case studies from New Zealand, Bangladesh, and Egypt of literacy being used in livelihoods, and relates t ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- Pastoral development and the use of para-vets in southern Sudan
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Pastoralism in Sudan has produced complex and varied livestock management systems, finely adapted to local environmental conditions. The isolation of pastoral communities has made it difficult for development agencies to form working relationships with th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:04
- Governance of the Amman water utility
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In 1993 the World Bank assisted the Ministry of Water and Irrigation of Jordan in updating a review of the water sector, and thus began the process of private sector participation (psp) in service provision to improve the efficiency of the water sector an ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Palestinian youth and non-formal service-learning: a model for personal development, long-term engagement, and peace building
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Palestinian youth face developmental, cultural, and political barriers that impede them from fully engaging in civic life. Non-traditional, youth-centred pedagogies of engagement, like community-based service-learning, have shown their potential to moti ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-05 15:18
- The spatialisation of child protection: notes from the occupied Palestinian territory
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This paper considers the employment of spatialised practice within child protection efforts as pursued by humanitarian agencies. Starting from a brief overview of the genealogy of enclosure and separation within both humanitarianism and in relation to c ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 15:58
